Parishes adjacent to Whaddon

Historical Descriptions

Directories

Whaddon Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856

Whaddon Kellys Gloucestershire Directory 1856

Whaddon is a township, parish and small village, 3 miles south from Gloucester railway station, 5 ½ north-north-west from Stroud, 13 south-west of Cheltenham, and 3 ½ north-west from Painswick, in the middle division of the Hundred of Dudstone and King’s Barton, Gloucester Union, West Gloucestershire archdeaconry, rural deanery, and Gloucester and Bristol bishopric. It is situated on the high road from Stroud to Gloucester. The Great Western and Midland railway passes through the parish. The church of Saint Margaret is an old stone building, the nave and chancel in the style of the 13th and the tower of the 15th century, was in 1855 (with the exception of the chancel, which belongs to the impropriator) entirely restored and repaired; it has nave, chancel, and western tower of two storeys, with battlements, parapet without pinnacles, and had a peal of 5 bells, of which 2 alone are now serviceable. The living is a perpetual curacy, £52 gross yearly value. This parish was permanently united with that of Brookthorpe, in 1843, with residence and 12 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester and J. Neeld, M.P.; the Rev. Francis T. Bayley, B.A., is the incumbent. The children in this parish attend the school at Brookthorpe. The population, in 1851, was 120, and the acreage is 727.

Gilberts, Old Farm, and Brickhouse, are farms.

Webb Mr. Hugh

Brooke William, farmer & cider retailer, Gilberts

Brooke William, jun. farmer, Old farm

Carter James, farmer

Houldey Lewis, blacksmith

Long Daniel, farmer, Brick house farm

Rea William, boot & shoe maker

Smart Thomas, butcher

Letters received through Gloucester, which is also the nearest money order office.

Source: Post Office Directory of Gloucestershire with Bath and Bristol. Printed and Published by Kelly and Co., 19, 20 & 21, Old Boswell Court, St. Clement’s, Strand, London. 1856.

Marriages

Marriages at Whaddon 1620 to 1812

Note. – Volume I of the Whaddon Register contains Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1674 to 1711. It has been much injured by water, and perhaps also by fire, so that many of the entries are wholly or partly illegible, and the lower part of the parchment pages has been cut away. This little Register has lately been rebound in a parchment cover, with spare pages added, on which has been written a fair copy of the legible entries, supplemented from the Transcripts at Gloucester, and an Index.

The Marriage entries here printed that are of earlier date than 1674 are from the Bishops’ Transcripts at Gloucester. Transcripts prior to 1674 are extant for the years 1617, 1620-5, 1627-9, 1632, 1636-9, 1663, 1665, and 1670. There is also a memorandum prefixed to the Transcripts, dated May 28, 1813, signed by John Bishop, curate, certifying that the parish Register of Whaddon commences 1712, with some other particulars. This date (1712) is evidently a mistake.

The entries 1620-1712 have been transcribed by the Rev. W. Symonds, M.A., and the remainder to 1812 by the Rev. E. H. Blake, M.A., vicar of Brookthorpe with Whaddon, by whose sanction they are here printed.